Me just emphasize that we are at the Wilson Center, the nations nations memorial to 28th president and one of the nations key now Public Policy form here at washington dc. You are add to the washington history seminar, and activity since 2010 we have ten we have jointly sponsored with the National History center. Its represented here by date kennedy comments director and the associate director. Amanda along with pete in the back help us get organized for the sessions sessions that we hope will provide a forum for bringing Historical Context to Public Policy and to invite historical perspectives on international and national affairs. As always we want to acknowledge the society of historians of American Foreign relations for sponsoring, cosponsoring the series as well as George Washington University History department and several others. Other named donors that allow us to make this on a weekly basis. Im supposed to point out that you can look at videos of this in past sessions on both
Up of a higher percentage of what their call war fighters are warriors and a smaller percentage of people were doing things like logistics. Indeed, largely logistics has been outsourced. Those computer programmers are very few actually relative to the amount that there were in the 1980s were actually still in the military. If you talk to officers who are in logistics they will tell you frankly that they can do very little without military contractors i most of the people they might be supervisors might be contractors. So since the outsourcing there is actually less of a convergence between civilian employment and military service. We are running out of time so lets take two final questions. In the back the blue sweater and then to want to take the final question. Verse the lady in the blue sweater. You didnt have a question . Actually couple of couple points, it seems, im with the American Museum of american history, very briefly unfortunately, one is that the historical depth of your
ACS: Serving military Families through each season 12/17/20, 11:16 AM
Evie Rodriguez
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Serving as a military spouse is not an easy task. In recent years, the addition of technology has made our lifestyle easier, especially when it comes to community connections. Back when I first began my journey as an Army spouse, we relied on each other through our Family Readiness Group, which was always only a phone call away. Every month we supported each other by celebrating birthdays, holidays and embracing each other as Family because after all, we each chose a common path in life, to join the Army Family.